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"The Dupes"
1972
Directed by Tewfik Saleh

Three Palestinian men from three different generations attempt to escape their impoverished lives in Iraq by crossing the desert to Kuwait, where the promise of work and freedom awaits them. A truck driver agrees to smuggle them across the border in this film about dispossession, despair and scraps of hope. "...a searing comment on the treatment of Palestinians by fellow Arabs, as well as being a gripping adventure of man against nature" (The Faber Companion to Foreign Film). Based on the novella, Men Under the Sun, by Ghassan Kanafani. Arabic with English subtitles.  107 minutes.